How Men and Women Use Language Differently and How This

question 62

Multiple Choice

How men and women use language differently and how this regularly leads to miscommunication between them would demand a close examination of the cultural context of language.This would be the work of what type of anthropologist?

• A) genderist
• B) sociolinguist
• C) historical linguist
• D) descriptive linguist

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

After a pause in exposure to the conditioned stimulus, a once suppressed conditioned response emerges again.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that was previously neutral becomes conditioned by being paired with another conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response.

Stimulus Generalization

The psychological phenomenon where a response to a specific stimulus becomes triggered by stimuli that are similar in nature.